The Story Gilmore Ghost Town Would Like to Forget

This old ghost mining town had many surprises in store for us. Established in the 1880s, mule teams hauled Gilmore’s silver to a smelter in the nearby town of Nicholia until the smelter burned to the ground. Once the railroad came through in 1910, the ore was taken to Montana. Initially, the town was built higher up on the mountain and named Horseshoe Gulch, but a larger town was constructed at a lower elevation as the population grew. In 1902, Jack T Gilmer named the town after himself, but when the Post Office Charter returned from Washington DC, they had misspelt it, calling the town Gilmore. Gilmore’s peak population was around 600, but due to an explosion at the power plant in 1927, the mining operation decreased, and the last mine closed in 1929 - the same year as the Great Depression. The railroad stopped in 1939, and the post office closed in 1957, making the small town of Gilmore officially a ghost town.

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